Match List

The Matches are in! I am very excited to have matched at UCLA, and look forward to finding out who my co-residents will be. The match list is below, in order by state. Please leave a comment below or email me your full name and where you matched to prsmatch2012@gmail.com, as well as anyone else you know of, I and will post them below.

If you were unfortunate not to match, vacancies will be posted on the SF Match site at http://www.sfmatch.org/vacancies/r_plasticsurgery.htm on May 14th.

Program
University of Alabama	Brad Denney
Mayo Clinic Arizona	Katie Connolly
University of California – Davis	Amy Ketcham
University of California – Los Angeles	Eric Culbertson	Kenneth Kao
University of California – San Diego	Gehaan D’Souza
University of Southern California	Paymon Rahgozar	Lyonal Carre
University of Colorado
University of Florida – Gainesville	Brad Nesmith
Cleveland Clinic Florida	Nate Eberle
University of Miami	Rebecca Bachusz	Renee Gasgarth	Bryan Curtis
Emory University	Meri Wetterau
Rush Medical Center	James Kong
University of Illinois – Chicago	Brian Rosett	Stephanie Cohen
Loyola University	Lohith Bose
Indiana University	Jeffrey Gibbs	Kristopher Hamwi	Luke Gutwein
University of Louisville	Dave Yonick	Josh Choo
Louisiana State University	Danny Womack
Tulane University	Tim Matatov	Rahul Vemula
Johns Hopkins	Seenu Susarla	Victor Wong
Harvard	Aladdin Hassanein	Jeffrey Lee	Paul Hwang
Lahey Clinic	Anaeze Offodile
Wayne State University
Henry Ford
University of Minnesota
Mayo Rochester	Ziyad Hammoudeh	Peter Wu	Alice Woo	Ghasson Mehio
University of Mississippi	Erica Hutcheson
University of Nebraska
R.W. Johnson – Camden	Abdulla Fakhro
LIPSG/Nassau County	Ramsen Azizi
Albert Einstein / Montefiore
University of North Carolina	Amita Shah	Patrick Mannal
Duke University	Michael Ogilvie	Brad Gandolfi
Summa Health – Akron	Michael DePerro	Marilyn Ng
University of Cincinnati	Sarah Evans
Cleveland Clinic Ohio	Neil Kundu	Greg Lamaris
Ohio State University	Stephen Poteet
Temple University	Marc Everett
University of Pittsburgh	Marco Maricevich	Alexey Markelov
McGill University
Medical University of South Carolina	Tahira Prendergast	Jen Dixon
University of Tennessee – Chattanooga	Paul Phillips
University of Tennessee – Memphis
Vanderbilt University	Julian Winocour	Bernard Salameh
University of Texas – Southwestern	Jack Scheuer	Ran Stark
University of Texas – San Antonio	Richard Delaney	Beth Bohnenblust
University of Texas – Houston	Paul Critelli
Methodist Hospital – Houston	Joseph Chen
University of Utah	Alvin Kwok
University of Virginia	Daniel Murariu

Good Luck Tomorrow

Match Day is tomorrow! I am excited and nervous, as I’m sure we all are, to find out where we will be spending three more years of our lives after next year. Please post or email me at prsmatch2012@gmail.com with your name and where you matched and I will post the list here. Good luck!

Rank Lists

Well it’s been a great run of interviews. Expenses aside, I have been very glad to meet many of you on the trail, and to have had the opportunity to see many different programs. Don’t forget that your rank list is due by Thursday, May 3rd. The SF Match site is not clear, but you can submit your rank list now and then modify it before the deadline. The Match results will be released one week later on Thursday, May 10th. I will be sure to post the complete list of who matched where when it becomes available. Good luck to all of you.

 

Program Applications Poll

It is way past due for a poll, so I’ll get one started. There were 52 programs offered initially. I applied to 32/52. How many programs did you apply to?

UC – Irvine PGY IV Position

UC – Irvine is currently an integrated program, but has expanded their residency by an additional resident and is looking to fill a position at the PGY IV level starting July 1, 2012. Per the solicitation letter, “Candidates must have completed General Surgery, Otolaryngology, Orthopedic Surgery, Urology or Neurosurgery to be eligible for this position.  Candidates would complete a 3 year training program in Plastic Surgery and be eligible to sit for their boards by ABPS.  Interested candidates should send CV, 3 letters of recommendation, ABSITE or In-Service Examination Scores, USMLEs and a statement of interest to the address above with attention to Dr Dan Jaffurs.” This position would be available to those who have already completed one of the above training programs, or are finishing this year, and would not apply to most of us currently applying for a position in 2013.

The address is below:

Aesthetic & Plastic Surgery Institute
UCI Manchester Pavilion
200 S. Manchester Avenue, Suite 650
Orange, CA 92868-3298
Office      (714) 456-5253
Fax       (714) 456-7718

Number of applicants

Another applicant was more successful than I was in garnering information from SF Match. Apparently there are 164 applicants this year. This is almost exactly the same as last year, in which there were 166 applicants. Of those 166 applicants, only 116 went on to submit rank lists, and 95 of those matched.

Final Interview Offers

I believe all interview offers have gone out, with the possible exception of McGill University which is still listed as having one position available, but I have not yet been able to verify whether they will be interviewing. Most recently, Cleveland Clinic Florida sent out offers on March 2nd for an April 27th date, UCLA on March 2nd for a March 24th date, University of Cincinnati on March 7th for April 3/4 and April 24/25 dates, and USC on March 7th for an April 7th interview date. The remaining programs that have interview are as follows:

Program	Interview Dates
University of California – San Diego	March 14
Tulane University	March 15
University of Virginia	March 17
University of Texas – Houston	March 19, March 21
Emory University	March 24
University of California – Los Angeles	March 24
University of Tennessee – Chattanooga	March 30, April 20
University of Tennessee – Memphis	March 30
University of Pittsburgh	March 30
University of Illinois – Chicago	March 31
University of Miami	March 31
University of Texas – San Antonio	March 31
Wayne State University	March 31
University of Minneapolis	March 31
University of Cincinnati	April 3/4, April 24/25
University of Southern California	April 7
University of California – Davis	April 21
Cleveland Clinic Florida	April 27

Temple 2/17 Interview

I’ll be interviewing at Temple on the 17th, coming into Philadelphia on the 16th. Since there is no program dinner the night before, if anyone is interested in going out on the town on the 16th, post here or shoot me an email at prsmatch2012@gmail.com.

First Interview – Mayo Arizona

My first interview is tomorrow at the Mayo in Scottsdale. I look forward to meeting some of you there. To date, there have been interviews at the University of Colorado, R.W. Johnson – Camden, Loyola University, University of Utah, Temple, and Nassau County/LIPSG. If you interviewed at these programs, please feel free to leave your thoughts on their strengths and weaknesses under the “Interview Discussion” section. Please do so constructively, and anonymously.

Data on the Interview/Match Process

I thought I would share an interesting paper from May 2011, “The independent plastic surgery match: an in-depth analysis of the applicants and process.” The data comes from SF Match statistics and surveys from the 2006-2008 matches:

Average number of programs applied: 31 for matched, 27 for unmatched
Average number of invitations: 13.6 for matched, 4.5 for unmatched
Average number of interviews: 10 for matched, 3.6 for unmatched
Over 80% of applicants who interviewed at 9 or more programs matched
100% (26/26) of applicants who interviewed at 13 or more programs matched
43.4% of successful matchers spent over $6000 interviewing

Keep in mind, match rates from 2006-2008 were 49-57%, compared to 73-83% from 2009-2011. It would be interesting to see how much the application/interview numbers have changed recently.